The Daytona Beach, FL marine forecast covers live wind speed and gusts, tide predictions, wave conditions, and major and minor solunar feeding times, updated continuously from NOAA and Open-Meteo. The strongest fishing windows usually line up with the moving tide and the solunar periods shown below — check current conditions before you head out.
By Steve Wilson, lifelong angler & founder of My Marine Forecast
Last updated: Sep 15, 2026, 8:00 AM
On Tuesday, September 15, Daytona Beach, FL sees high tide at 12:20 PM (3.3 ft), low tide at 6:10 AM (0.3 ft) and 6:36 PM (0.7 ft). Winds 1–16 mph from the NE gusting to 22 mph. Air temperatures 77–84°F. The strongest fishing windows line up with the moving water around each tide change, roughly an hour on either side.
Today's Tides · Station 8721138
| Low tide | 6:10 AM | 0.3 ft |
| High tide | 12:20 PM | 3.3 ft |
| Low tide | 6:36 PM | 0.7 ft |
Wind
1–16 mph NE
Gusts
22 mph
Air Temp
77–84°F
Tides from NOAA Station 8721138 · wind & temperature from Open-Meteo. Open the live forecast for hourly charts and the 7-day outlook.
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Daytona Beach provides access to both the Atlantic Ocean and the Halifax River/Intracoastal Waterway, creating diverse fishing opportunities throughout the year. The nearshore reefs off Daytona hold impressive populations of sheepshead, black sea bass, and snapper, while deeper structure produces grouper and amberjack for offshore anglers.
The Halifax River and its connecting waterways offer productive inshore fishing for redfish, spotted seatrout, and flounder. Ponce de Leon Inlet to the south is one of the East Coast's most productive snook and tarpon fisheries during their seasonal runs. The inlet's powerful tidal flows concentrate baitfish and the gamefish that feed on them.
Surf fishing along Daytona's beach produces pompano, whiting, red drum, and bluefish year-round. The concrete piers off Daytona Beach Shores are popular spots for Spanish mackerel and kingfish. Use the live wave and wind forecast to identify the best surf fishing windows with manageable conditions.
Spring: Pompano and whiting run the surf from March into May as water warms through the 60s and 70s. Sheepshead finish their spawn on the Ponce Inlet jetties early in spring, bluefish and jacks patrol the beach, and trout and redfish spread across the Halifax River flats after the last fronts pass.
Summer: Tarpon and sharks follow pogy pods down the beach all summer, sometimes within a long cast of the sand. Snook and mangrove snapper hold on the Ponce Inlet rocks, flounder collect on the sandy edges nearby, and the Halifax River gives up trout and reds early before the heat builds.
Fall: The mullet run brings the year's most violent fishing to the beach in September and October, with tarpon, big jacks, sharks and bluefish on the bait. Bull redfish school at Ponce Inlet on the falling tide, and the flounder run builds around the jetties and inlet through November.
Winter: Sheepshead are the winter staple, crowding the Ponce Inlet jetties, bridge pilings and dock structure. Black drum join them around deeper structure, trout stack in the Halifax River's deep holes and canals, and whiting bite steadily in the surf on warmer days between fronts. Redfish school in clear shallow water.
Ponce de Leon Inlet, south of town, is the region's fish highway, with jetty access on the north side at Lighthouse Point Park. The Sunglow Pier in Daytona Beach Shores and the Main Street Pier in the heart of Daytona give surf anglers year-round platforms for pompano, whiting, bluefish and fall-run species. The Halifax River behind the beach holds trout, redfish and snook around docks and drop-offs, and Tomoka State Park at the river's north end is a longtime favorite for redfish and black drum in the basin.